On Sunday 06 March 2005 07:01, Jeff Dike wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > Is this like it is implemented now? > > Yup. In both the AIO and non-AIO case, there is a separate thread to which > you send IO requests, and at some later point, UML gets interrupted with > the results. To answer another question from Sven: since we are using a separate thread, there is no need for context switches.
Or more technically, there is no need for TLB flushing, i.e. "memory switches"; a context switch means a switch of registers (which aren't so few) and such things, and is performed between any two different code paths, including two threads. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
